The CW is putting all of its eggs in the Greg Berlanti basket, as today the network announced that it's given a full series order to the producer's live-action Archie Comics series Riverdale.
It's official: Supergirl has been renewed for season two, but it won't be in the same place fans are used to. The series is migrating over to The CW for its sophomore year, where it will join fellow DC small-screen universe shows like The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow.
Robocop re-boot star Joel Kinnaman has been cast as the lead in Netflix's upcoming Altered Carbon adaptation. The show has been written and created by Laeta Kalogridis (screenwriter on Terminator Genisys and Shutter Island), with Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones) on board to direct the pilot.
"We don't look a day over 350," quips a deceptively sprightly Jane Fonda in the opening hours of Netflix's sublime little coming-of-old-age dramedy Grace and Frankie. She's mostly joking, of course, but her character's steady growth towards some kind of understanding of a particularly hairy situation - her husband is leaving her, for her new best friend's husband - is an arc that somehow hits a sweet spot in the show's slow and steadily satisfying sophomore season.
Penelope Cruz is set to have some sort of a mid-life crisis in the new drama film Layover, a planned big screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Lisa Zeidner. Toni Kalem - veteran actress on The Sopranos - has written the film and is also on board to direct.
National Geographic is getting into the scripted series game with Genius, an anthology show that will detail the wold's greatest innovators in season-long arcs before moving onto a new subject each year. The network has now nabbed director Ron Howard to helm the pilot of Genius, which will focus on the life of Albert Einstein.
Hulu is getting into the dystopian game, with the announcement today that the streaming service has given a straight-to-series order for an adaptation of the classic Margaret Atwood novel The Handmaid's Tale. There's a star attached as well - Mad Men alum Elisabeth Moss is set to lead the 10-episode first season.
When book and video game adaptations fail, turn to board games about giant monsters fighting man-made robots in the apocalypse. That's what a group of big-wig Hollywood studios are thinking it seems, with news coming that an intense bidding war is underway to net the movie rights for the tabletop game Monsterpocalypse.
Although video game adaptations have continued to be less-than-stellar (sorry, Ratchet and Clank!), Hollywood is determined to create a hit, it seems. Today it was revealed that producer Marc Platt has partnered with Sega in a deal to adapt the studio's popular series of Shinobi games into a feature film.
Have you ever wanted The Hunger Games and Maze Runner movies to keep their life-and-death stakes, but star older actors? Well, lucky for you, the upcoming sci-fi action flick Andròn details a future where a group of non-adolescents are forced to fight to death in a maze, and Alec Baldwin is the requisite big name actor there for a nefarious purpose.
